Quotes About Defeat

When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

Her defeat did not stop Mrs Fish exercising her sharp and often cruel wit even against those she counted as friends. She even stood up to the formidable Alva, a close confidante, when Alva accused her of telling all their friends that she, Alva, looked like a frog. 'No, no!' cried Mamie, 'not a frog! A toad, my pet, a toad.

Let the end come, however cruel; at least then we'll know whether we are to be the victors or the vanquished.

The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated.

I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.

Remember the scene in Cat Ballou where a very drunk Lee Marvin goes from unconscious to ranting to triumphant to roaring to weeping defeat, and then finally passes out? One of the men watching him says, with real awe, "I never seen a man get through a day so fast." Don't let this be you.

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these islands grew older, they turned their misfortune into virtue, learned to accept their cragginess, their misshapen coasts, ragged where they'd been torn. They acquired grace.

Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.